Ex-beauty queen Sheena Monnin’s father has come to her aid in a bid to keep her from having to pay $5 million in damages for falsely alleging that the Miss USA pageant is rigged.

In a letter to the Manhattan federal judge who’s been asked to sign off on an arbitrator’s ruling, Philip Monnin said the hefty award against the former Miss Pennsylvania isn’t “just.”

“I am making this appeal directly to you,” he wrote on his 27-year-old little girl’s behalf.

He also said it’s “questionable” whether the pageant would have suffered the loss of a $5 million sponsorship if officials — including part-owner Donald Trump — hadn’t “blown the entire story up with their persistent media appearances.”